A51839:399
XVIII sermons on the second chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Thessalonians containing…
XVIII sermons on the second chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Thessalonians containing the description, rise, growth, and fall of Antichrist : with divers cautions and arguments to establish Christians against the apostasy of the Church of Rome : very necessary for these times / by that late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...XVIII sermons on the second chapter of the 2d Epistle to the Thessalonians containing the description, rise, growth, and fall of Antichrist : with divers cautions and arguments to establish Christians against the apostacy of the Church of Rome : very necessary for these times / by that late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...
London: printed by J.D. for J. Robinson, 1679
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Use. Let us not think Popery a light thing, which the Lord so peremptorily threateneth. Surely, it is no li•••e mercy that we are freed from it. Therefore we should be thankful for the light we have, and improve it well while we have it, and hold it fast. What hope soever we may have of men living in former times, and foreign Countries, where they knew no better, but after such express warnings, what hope can we have of English Papists, considering the time when Rome is not grown better but worse, and what was common opinion, is now made an Article of Faith; and when the truth is taught and so clearly manifested▪ so that for any by their own voluntary choice, to run into Popery, it is a p•ain defection from Christ to Antichrist; and wilfully ⟨p. 188⟩to drink that poison which will be the bane and ruin of your Souls.
1. Vse. Let us not think Popery a light thing, which the Lord so peremptorily threatneth. Surely, it is no li•••e mercy that we are freed from it. Therefore we should be thankful for the light we have, and improve it well while we have it, and hold it fast. What hope soever we may have of men living in former times, and foreign Countries, where they knew no better, but after such express warnings, what hope can we have of English Papists, considering the time when Rome is not grown better but worse, and what was common opinion, is now made an Article of Faith; and when the truth is taught and so clearly manifested▪ so that for any by their own voluntary choice, to run into Popery, it is a p•ain defection from Christ to Antichrist; and wilfully ⟨p. 188⟩to drink that poison which will be the bane and ruine of your Souls.